Tea Merchant

Enter the world of Ocean, where merchant adventurers ply the seas in search of treasure and fame.Javier al-Rasheed is an orphan, a naval officer, a playboy, and a drunken cad. After secretly marrying Nazira, princess of the Dominion of Cycus, he is forced to adopt a new title: pirate.With Nazira vying to become the next Dominar of Cycus, Javier must amass a fortune and accrue allies to her cause. Secrets hide on every island and the sailors aboard the Remarker must learn to work together while pretending to be unassuming tea merchants.

Nazira is a princess but hardly a damsel in distress.Princess Nazira, heir to the throne of the Dominion of Cycus, has sent her new husband away to seek fame and fortune on the endless sea. But like on the ocean, a storm can roll in with little warning. Her father, the king, has turned against her.She must survive a year besieged by enemies, including a sinister assassin's guild, bloodthirsty relatives, jilted lovers, and sinister shadows whose motives are unknown. But even as she is forced to take part in a deadly procession that will end with her death, she is not without allies.Can Nazira take back her throne, or will the veil she is forced to wear prove deadly?

The revolution on Cycus has been won, but will the crew survive a second voyage?Javier al-Rasheed, former playboy and current consort to the Dominar of Cycus, has elected to lead his beloved crew on a second voyage, only this time he has been commissioned by his wife's uncle to find an impossible tea in a lost land.Despite facing implacable pirates, strange cultures, and the threat of missing land and sailing to their deaths on Ocean's vast seas, the misfit crew of the Remarker are up for the challenge. But the deadliest foe may be within their own hulls. Between lapses in memory, new crewmembers no one seems to know, and an evil force dogging their every step, the seemingly endless sea may be driving them mad.